After news broke this week that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was considering letting states use federal grant funding to buy guns for schools, Senior Fellow and Brown Center on Education Policy Director Michael Hansen discusses the problematic proposal to use taxpayer money to arm teachers and faculty, and offers recommendations for less risky policies to make schools safer.
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How to make schools safer without arming teachers
There are ways to make schools safer and teachers stronger-but they don’t involve guns
The 2018 Brown Center Report on American Education
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PodcastArming teachers won’t improve school safety
August 24, 2018